the rounded fruit of a tree of the rose family, with green or red skin and crisp flesh.
the tree which bears apples.
[Genus Malus: numerous cultivated forms.]
used in names of similar unrelated fruits, e.g. custard apple.
Phrase
the apple of one's eye a person of whom one is extremely fond and proud.
[orig. denoting the pupil of the eye, extended as a symbol of something cherished.]
apples and pears Brit.rhyming slang stairs.
a rotten
(or bad)
apple informal a corrupt person in a group, likely to have a detrimental influence on the others.
